Days Leading up to La Plata...

Amazingly, it was just this morning that we finalized our La Plata, Argentina team. We all ask for your prayer support during this trip. Let me introduce you to our team:

Richard Bomar
Chuck Ellingsworth
Chad Jackson
Tyler Jacobus
Gray Lane
Frank Warren

This is a picture of the whole group:

Okay, so the whole group didn't quite show up that Sunday, but we will all be taking off on Friday, June 27th for La Plata and Chascomus, Argentina. Here's a map to give you an idea of where we will be in Argentina.

As you begin to pray for us, please keep the following requests in mind:

Specific Prayer Requests of the Argentina Mission Trip Members

 Humility for the team – willingness to listen, willingness to learn, willingness to leave what is comfortable, willingness to forgive and seek reconciliation with others when needed
 Grace for the team – that our actions and words would be grace-filled to all we come in contact with; that others will know we are Christians by our love
 Boldness/Courage for the team – for us to speak the truth in love, for us encourage those who are discouraged, for us to walk into the “unknown” trusting our Father’s hand
 Patience for the team – Type A personalities from the USA and the Argentine clock don’t seem to mesh well naturally – so we need prayer for our patience with each other and with our very kind hosts when plans don’t seem to go the way we planned (or if there is a plan at all!)
 Hearts of gratitude and thankfulness no matter the situations or conditions that we find ourselves in – pray for the team’s contentment
 Completing our regular work loads at our jobs this week and next in order to be away nine days
 Comfort and care for this group of fathers who will be leaving their toddlers in Memphis these nine days
 Travel logistics – maximum contact time with the Argentinean people (pray for flights to all work out and for us not be delayed in this process)
 Those of us who have been to Argentina will see God’s great work there and the progress of the gospel in this area and that this will result in praise and thanksgiving
 Health of the entire team – it is winter in Argentina and oftentimes the drastic change causes a great deal of illness
 Team to get plenty of rest and when we don’t, we will seek God’s strength all the more to respond with grace to others when we are exhausted
 For us as individual team members to trust Christ in our fears and in those things that stretch us out of our comfort zones
 God’s help in building positive relationships with all people we come in contact with – at the airlines, on the planes, in Argentina, etc. in which bridges for the gospel can go forth
 That God will use this trip for all the men to deepen their relationship to Christ as one and to each other as one, and to be better husbands and fathers
 God would help us with the language barrier and that He would give us excellent recall of all that high school/college Spanish we “learned” a long time ago in our lives
 Please pray that God will use this trip to “enlarge” our Christian world-view of the gospel and “enlarge” our compassion and hearts for those who are in need.
 That the team will be given multiple opportunities to encourage and inspire others at Second when we return to Memphis to consider going on a short-term mission trip.

We will post as often as possible, but will have availability to the internet guided by the Lord.

In Christ,